Lysander Spooner: “In this manner the king usurped the selection of the jurors who were to sit in judgment upon his own laws.”

They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.

They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.

They acknowledge it to be our unquestioned right and duty to kill them, if we can; that they expect nothing else, than that we will kill them, if we can; and that we are only fools and cowards, if we do not kill them, by any and every…

In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.